The Stranger, June 24th, 2004
Unless his next film is about the misadventures of a pack of fluffy bunnies, it's hard to imagine that Jean-Jacques Annaud (who also made The Bear; in addition to Seven Years in Tibet and Quest for Fire) is ever going to trump the cuteness standard set by this DV tale about two tiger cubs in Indochina who get separated from their mom and from one another. The wee tigers are so goddamn cute that you almost start crying before the bullets fly, before the cage doors slam shut, before the fires blaze. And when those calamities get going, forget it. But Two Brothers, I'm relieved to note, is more t...
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